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International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics

2nd Edition, as published by Charles François 2004 Presented by the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science Vienna for public access.

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The International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics was first edited and published by the system scientist Charles François in 1997. The online version that is provided here was based on the 2nd edition in 2004. It was uploaded and gifted to the center by ASC president Michael Lissack in 2019; the BCSSS purchased the rights for the re-publication of this volume in 200?. In 2018, the original editor expressed his wish to pass on the stewardship over the maintenance and further development of the encyclopedia to the Bertalanffy Center. In the future, the BCSSS seeks to further develop the encyclopedia by open collaboration within the systems sciences. Until the center has found and been able to implement an adequate technical solution for this, the static website is made accessible for the benefit of public scholarship and education.

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PHENOMENOLOGY in systemic sense 3)

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A non-philosophical, but systemic sense could be given to phenomenology, i.e. the systemic way to observe phenomena, and more specially complex processes and systems.

In such a worldview, there is a conscious "perceptive intentionality" (BRENTANO, MERLEAU PONTY), different from the somewhat naive supposedly "objective" view and the merely reductionist one.

The physiological limits to perception, Gestalt psychology, GIBSON's affordance, WATZLAWICZ's and von GLASERSFELD's constructivism, WARFIELD's methodology for avoiding underconceptualization, MATURANA and VARELA's organizational closure, VALLÉE's epistemo-praxeology, for example provide good foundations for a systemic phenomenology.

The general idea would be to complement analytic and holistic observation and modelization of whatever we perceive, obtaining in this way a more complete and complex, and less naive view of what we call reality.

In fact, it must be admitted that the various concepts of what phenomenology means and implies form a quite mystifying labyrinth. From HUSSERL to HEIDEGGER, MERLEAU PONTY and various mainly German and French philosophers, the shades of meaning on the subject are so distinct that a coherent view is very difficult to gather.

The Danish author O. Fogh KIRKEBY has given recently a very interesting and embracing overview on this matter. He connects also to phenomenology some significant views of WITTGENSTEIN, MATURANA and LUHMANN (1997, p. 3-33)

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